Talking to GamingBolt.com, Pachter said: “I don’t think it’s coming out this year. Nintendo’s practice has been to show things a year, year and a half before they come out, so I think they’ll show it at this E3, and I think it’ll come out next year.

"It’s sounding an awful lot like it’s a handheld and console hybrid, where you have a handheld and you do some stuff on it, and the console will be like an Apple TV or something, and you can pull games down from that.

"I would say based on Nintendo’s recent history, it is not going to be very good.

I know they are pretty excited about it, but I would say it’s a backward looking technology, that is just not an improvement over everything else that we’ve got an option to do, and it will completely miss the point of games getting away from consoles."